Daily Calendar - May 16

The 136th day of the year, 229 days left until the New Year.

Father of the Catholicos (744); Venerable Michael and Arseny of Georgia, Ulumba (IX)*; Martyrs Timothy and Maurus (286); Venerable Peter the Wonderworker, Bishop of Argos (X); Venerable Theodosius of Kiev-Pechora, Abbot (1074).

Born:

1768 _ Ioane Batonishvili, public figure, educator, encyclopedist, writer, scientist, lexicographer. Died in 1830.

1801 — William Seward, American statesman, US Secretary of State in 1861-1869. On his initiative, America bought Alaska from Russia for 7 million dollars.

1821 — Pafnut Chebyshev, Russian mathematician. Died in 1887.

1866 — Bachana (Nikoloz Razikashvili). Poet, brother of Vazha-Pshavela. Died in 1928.

1876 — Iakob Nikoladze, prominent sculptor, one of the founders of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts. Died in 1951.

1887 — Igor Severyanin, Russian poet. Died in 1941.

1914 — Vakhtang Tabliashvili, theater and film director. Died in 2002.

Died:

1703 — Charles Perrault, French writer and storyteller.

1830 — Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, French mathematician.

1947 — Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1984 — Irving Shaw, American writer.

1997 — Giuseppe De Santis, Italian film director.

Events:

1703 — Saint Petersburg was founded.

1815 — The Duchy of Warsaw joined Russia as the Kingdom of Poland.

1920 — Joan of Arc was canonized by the Vatican.

1975 — Mount Everest was conquered by the first woman — Japanese Junko Taben.

1992 — The funeral ceremony of German-American film star Marlene Dietrich was held in Berlin.